STAND. COM. REP. NO. 142-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1770

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1770 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MOTOR VEHICLES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to deter the false activation of vehicle alarm systems by increasing the fines for multiple offenses of allowing car alarms to emit a sound for longer than five continuous minutes.

Two concerned individuals testified in support of this measure.

Your Committee understands the need to prevent automobile theft and protect parked cars from being vandalized. Although car alarms were made to deter such activity, the proliferation of false alarms have decreased their effectiveness. Moreover, the incessant wailing of an inadvertently triggered car alarm has become a nuisance in many neighborhoods on Oahu.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1770 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

 

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JOSEPH M. SOUKI, Chair